Special Time

WE had something some years back called, "special time" which was time the children would have with us and we would do whatever they wanted to do during that time.  They loved it.   They were always asking for it.   

What was interesting was if we did things together, if they weren't defined as "special time" at the outset, it didn't count in our children's minds. 

My son has had hopefully what he considers a lot of special time with his father this week.  And I've had a lot of special time with my daughter.  I wondered if she thought it was special time or not.   She said he did think it was special time.   That made me feel a little better.  Then she wanted to do "things together" for the rest of the evening.